To boldly go...

[Ildi]

Star Trek news! Well, sort of...

My family went to the Fan Expo Comic/Sci-Fi Convention today in Toronto. This was my first con, and I wanted to go to see Beau Bridges from Stargate SG1, and checkout some Stargate merchandise. Well, I saw no Beau, no Stargate stuff, BUT *drumroll* I saw Leonard Nimoy (Spock)



Walter Koenig (Chekov)



Robert Duncan MacNeill (Tom Paris)



Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko)



And Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian from Star Wars)



Along with my family, I was one very happy camper.



How about that?

[Martin]

O.O, I want to meet Nimoy, he's awesome.

Not sure if he's seen him but I know an uncle of mine as met previous likes of Star Trek characters in the past. He in a massive fan of the series and has a lot of memorabilia(sp) collected (Signed items etc). I do know however that he's met the guy that played R2-D2 in Star Wars at the college accross the road from me. Don't know his name with googling it.

[Ken G]

Way cool, Ildi!
As I said somewhere, I've led a sort of Forrest Gump life in that I keep running into "famous" people "by accident".
In 1974 I got on a plane to fly to my cousins' home in upstate New York, and Leonard Nimoy boarded soon after. He looked like he didn't want to be bothered, so everyone left him alone, but there was a lot of whispering and pointing! Now.... I'll keep this list in the Sci-Fi category for now.... Waiting in line for a flight to India many years later, I met the guy who played the giant keyboard synthesizer at the end of "Close Encounters". He was surprised as heck that I recognized him! But a friend of mine had pointed him out to me in the movie, and told me that he was the president of Bose Audio. So I remembered him.
The most interesting encounter was with Yoda, and I didn't know it at the time! I studied very briefly with one of the Dalai Lama's elder tutors, Serkong Rinpoche. As it turns out, he was the original model for Yoda.....which I found out years later.



Check out those three vertical wrinkles on his forehead. The Buddhists see them as a "sign" of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha). The folks who created Yoda emphasized this feature, but I was disappointed when that last animated episode came out, as Yoda's animated version has four lines there.

Check out his story at: http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/index.html

The site was created by one of my friends, Alex Berzin, one of the finest scholars of Tibetan Buddhism. Hover on Approaching Buddhism, click on Spiritual Teachers, click on A Portrait of Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche. You don't have to be a Buddhist to enjoy the story! Interesting also from another point of view......Alex is now working with his teacher's new "tulku" or incarnation. (Serkong Rinpoche passed away....now he's back!)

May the Force be with you! love, ken G aka MM

[Sylvia]

How about that?

LoL. Sounds like someone had a really great day!

May you now ~Live Long And Prosper~

Love, Syl

[Ildi]

May you now ~Live Long And Prosper~

Thanks Syl, I intend to! Ever since I was a kid I've been telling people that I was going to live for 120 years. I don't know where that came from, but it's there, inside of me even today. I just feel like I'm going to live for very long. I shall have to see.
As for prosperity, I'm planning to win the lottery (like many others, LOL). I will have to see about that too. I have this feeling or knowledge or sense, or whatchamacallit, that I will retire from work at 45 because I will get a lot of money from somewhere. Again, I will see. All I know is that my hubby hasn't had work for a long time and yet I'm not worried. I feel secure, totally at ease, which is not logical. But I've left logic behind some time ago, and never regretted it.

Kenny, thanks for the link, a most interesting reading.

[Revenant]

Wow, wish I was there as well. Would have loved to meet Richard Dean Anderson from StarGate Sg1 cast(Col. Jack O'Neill), Samantha Carter, Teal'c, Dr. Daniel Jackson, etc. I saw ALL Sg1 episodes!

There is a new Stargate series coming this year:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286039/

In the actors list Richard Dean will be playing a few episodes.

On the left is a picture of Kevin Sorbo(Hercules: the legendary journeys and the SciFi series Andromeda) one of my favorite actors as well. I wonder if he plays in the new Stargate since some Stargate actors played in some Andromeda episodes.

[Nardine]

Greetings folks,

Another Star-Trek/Gate fan joins in… What a fabulous treat for you Ildi, and yep, I would dearly love to meet Beau Bridges AND Richard Dean Anderson. My love of both of them goes way beyond SG1, for they truly are beautiful spirits.

BIG smile, Forrest, aka MM, aka Kenny, now why does it NOT surprise me that you have seen and met these wondrous folks… goodness you live an exalted existence [okay, not without challenges too]. Life brings you many well-deserved treasures!

…I've been telling people that I was going to live for 120 years. I don't know where that came from, but it's there, inside of me even today.

LoL… I have been saying the same thing for decades! That, and “the older I get, the younger I look!” Good to know there will be peers to play with then.

Reve did you ever watch Richard Dean Anderson in MacGyver? That was a brilliant show, but I have never heard of Andromeda… cool to know where your avatar is from though.

Aye, may we all, “live long and prosper!”

Magical d’light
Nardine

[Revenant]

Yes, I watched McGuyver. Samantha even makes some references to that series in SG1 telling O'Neill how a-technical he is.

Andromeda(with Kevin Sorbo) was created by Gene Roddenberry(creator of Startrek)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213327/